Spore to ET, Come In !

I don’t play computer games at all but I used to be an avid fan of EA Games “Spore” – especially the Creator aspect. Spore was a game that came with the potential to create a diverse range of creatures, vehicles and buildings; which you then integrated into the game. I found the game boring but I loved Creator and saw enormous potential in this particular model of “form development”. Like Bryce, Daz and Terragen before it, Spore has the potential to bring life to the imagination but it’s one great limitation is that it is based on cartoonish style of form, which is wonderful for gaming but holds back the full realization of our imaginations. What I would truly love is to see a realistic Spore like WYSIWYG approach to form design – particularly body design. I would love to be able to show the ETs that I have encountered by playing with a designer that could do that. Please tell me if you know of such a tool ! No doubt such a program is only around the corner, if it doesn’t already exist.

Here’s a video I threw together of a few of the many creatures I made in Spore about a decade ago and some videos of other people’s more recent creations. Some of things that people have created with Spore are truly amazing !

 

The Diversity of Space Faring ET Life

Here’s a primer by Steven Greer on ET life forms. It’s a subject I wrote about on my old blog and will be writing about it again in the next few weeks, as a follow up to Andromedans, My Arse. It’s a subject that I think is really important and needs a great deal more exploration; especially if we’re going to get over US and Them.